1 / 11

SOC 402: Sociological Theory

SOC 402: Sociological Theory. NeoMarxist Theory. Intellectual Influence. Classical theory Marx Early: philosophical: critical Late: political economy: structural Middle: socio-historical: historical Weber politics interactive model historical/comparative method.

myra
Download Presentation

SOC 402: Sociological Theory

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SOC 402: Sociological Theory NeoMarxist Theory

  2. Intellectual Influence • Classical theory • Marx • Early: philosophical: critical • Late: political economy: structural • Middle: socio-historical: historical • Weber • politics • interactive model • historical/comparative method

  3. Other Intellectual Influences • economic determinism • Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky • Hegel • Freud: super ego ego id

  4. Socio-Historical Context • Marx’s death to Russian Revolution: 1883-1917 • Russian Revolution to Hitler’s Germany: 1917-1932 • Hitler-WW II: 1932-1945 • Cold War: 1945-1989 • Post Cold War?

  5. Perspective • Radical • What all Marxist theories share • Along with attempt to maintain dialectical model

  6. Model(s) • Dialectical models of institutions • economy • culture • politics • Interactive (?) Functional (?) models of inter-institutional relations

  7. NeoMarxist Dialectics Critical Neo-Hegelian Economic Determinism culture interest Exploiting class conflict conflict conflict Exploited class experience knowledge Structural Historical World Systems class circumstance Core nation republicanism conflict conflict conflict capitalism class consciousness peripheral nation

  8. Last Shot at NeoMarxists • All begin with internal contradictions of capitalism • They focus on different parts of Marx in order to • explain “failure” of the Marxist theory of revolution • 1. class consciousness • 2. economic crises of capitalism • 3. class struggle and political crisis • explain the complexity of modern capitalism

  9. Three Theories • Critical • class consciousness • cultural industry • potential for liberation • Structural • stages of capitalism: monopoly, postmodern • strategies for crisis management: Fordism, etc. • complexity of modern class relations • role of the state

  10. Three theories (cont.) • Historical • class relations as dynamic process • local history • world systems

  11. Marxist Dialectical Synthesis Exploiter class circumstance interest Exploited knowledge Culture class consciousness Experience

More Related